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Contributing Writer · May 5, 2011
EHR Incentive Payment Schedule: When do I get my Meaningful Use money?
The EHR Incentive Program (“ Meaningful Use”) will pay Eligible Providers an incentive bonus for demonstrating “meaningful use of certified Electronic Health Record (EHR) technology,” beginning in 2011. But when and how will these payments take place?
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Contributing Writer · May 3, 2011
Meaningful Use criteria: Record demographics drill down
For clinicians to become eligible for EHR Incentive Program(“Meaningful Use”) payments, a number of criteria must be achieved. There are 15 core measures, and 10 “menu” items from which a clinician must choose 5. Some measures have exclusions, as they may not pertain to a...
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Contributing Writer · April 20, 2011
Meaningful Use Cinical Quality Measures simplified
Reporting Clinical Quality Measures (CQMs) is only one of the fifteen core Meaningful Use measures required to qualify for EHR incentives. The measure simply requires providers to attest that they did or did not report ambulatory clinical quality measures to CMS. What does this mean...
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Contributing Writer · December 9, 2010
Practice Fusion and Health Information Exchanges
An important goal in the effort to achieve widespread adoption of Electronic Health Records (EHRs) is to allow patient data to flow easily from where it is housed to where it is needed. Though it is conceptually simple, such a goal is remarkably difficult to...
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Contributing Writer · December 2, 2010
Accountable Care Organizations and Meaningful Use of EMRs
Accountable Care Organizations (ACOs) have received considerable attention recently, and are the new “hot topic” in healthcare delivery policy circles. They are the latest response to the need to do something to stem the runaway inflation of healthcare costs, while maintaining or improving measurable health...
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